I don't see the world as something divided between right and left.

In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.

As for the job of prime minister, I like it, yes. But no more than I've liked other work that I've done as an adult.

When you look at the beginning of the actual war, it's not hard to recognize that the Pakistanis were the ones to attack.

Even I, when I was a student in London, often wore Western clothes, and yet I'm the most Indian Indian I know.

[Mahatma Gandhi] said that the first president of India ought to be a harijan girl, an untouchable. He was so against the class system and the oppression of women that an untouchable woman became for him the epitome of purity and benediction.

Whether when I was a child and fought the British in the Monkey brigade, or when I was a girl and wanted to have children, or when I was a woman and devoted myself to my father, making my husband angry. Each time I stayed involved all the way in my decision, and took the consequences. Even if I was fighting for things that didn't concern India.